Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes. We think about it in terms of longitudes. When you think about that portion of the geostationary arc over Canada, it's probably the case that any geostationary satellite in the portion of the arc located between 65 degrees west longitude on the eastern side and probably, cal

Industry committee  All of the geostationary satellites are over the equator. You see as far north and as far south as you can from those slots. We have some challenges here in terms of providing services for arctic sovereignty purposes. Once you start getting away up to the northern pole or towards

Industry committee  If we violated our licence conditions, yes, that's right. I have every expectation that Industry Canada, maybe after a reasonable cure period, would revoke our licence and make the rights to those particular orbital locations and frequencies available to one of our competitors.

Industry committee  Would it be every country? No. I'm thinking about the countries where our larger competitors are, meaning the U.S., France, and Luxembourg. None of those entities, even though they're headquartered in those countries, is owned by a preponderance of individuals or institutions tha

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  Yes. Under the Investment Canada Act, someone would have to demonstrate a net benefit, and then, as I understand it--and I'm no expert--there are also national security considerations that can be taken, which are part of the act.

Industry committee  There's another Canadian operator today. They're called Ciel. We battle with Ciel at Industry Canada for orbital locations, and based on Ciel's behaviour in various regulatory processes, I think they'd be very keen to get access to our orbital slots. I also think that if we wer

Industry committee  I don't think so. I would emphasize that every other developed country that plays host to a major satellite operator doesn't have these restrictions. They are in many ways relaxed about the ultimate ownership of these entities because they know that they can achieve all their pol

Industry committee  No, I wouldn't say we've done that at all. We've had some conversations with different banks about maybe taking Telesat public at some point. If we took Telesat public, the likelihood is that there would probably be a dual listing, potentially, where we would list both in Canada

Industry committee  Our desire to have these rules reformed is to help us grow, and to really—everyone uses the term—level the playing field. But look at our playing field. It's not level. Our foreign competitors aren't subject to these rules when they do business here. If it were to happen that o

Industry committee  It doesn't work that way. Think of an orbit as a circle. It is 360 degrees. Satellites typically need to be at least two degrees apart from each other so that they don't interfere with one another in space, so if you take that 360 degrees and divide it by two for the two-degree o

Industry committee  We would put a couple over the Atlantic ocean region, but more east, so it would be a satellite that could cover the eastern portion of Canada and the United States, in order that you could connect to that market, but it would see as far east as possible. It would see all of Afri

Industry committee  There's a wonderful barrier to that: Canada has the rights to these orbital positions. The orbital positions are scarce, they're desirable, and Industry Canada would not allow this valuable Canadian resource to be abandoned and given over to another administration. There are very

Industry committee  I think the issue is that because these ownership restrictions are in place, it does limit our ability to continue to grow Telesat. I've said that I think we have reasonable good scale in providing a service here in North America. We have eight, almost nine satellites that are re